The new Ian Brown album ‘Solarized’ will be released in the UK (or on import for the rest of us) on September 20th. NME’s got the details.

Rilo Kiley have announced North American tour dates for this fall! And yes, I will be at the Toronto show.

Chromewaves says Snow Patrol are are back in town at the Opera House on September 17th.

Robbie Williams is the musical guest on Jay Leno tomorrow night. Stop your snickering - I felt obligated to mention this.

Britney keeps bring white trash to new and exciting levels... First balcony blowjobs... then ironic novelty tees... and now LL Cool J style velour sweatpants... Ick!

KarenPlusOne’s got Curiousa pictures up!

Le Tigre signed with Universal and will release their third album, This Island, in October.

Exclusive Libertines photos. Too pretty… Ooh and Ambitious Outsiders has the pretty new Libertines video for "Can’t Stand Me Now" up for you to "le sigh" at.

I totally wanted to check at that Hope Of The States show at Lee’s last night. I didn’t remember until this morning! Whoops! Did anyone go? Was it any good?

Trainspotting pub to close. At least I can say I’ve been there.

Chris Clark has a teeny tiny video of The Killers peforming "Somebody Told Me" at Coachella.

I was listening to The Smiths The Queen Is Dead on the drive to work this morning and this silly website kept crossing my mind: Diana's Death Foretold in the Work of Morrissey.